Chapter 36: There Must Be Some Extraordinary Encounter
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“Brother Dragon!”
Lin Guodong strode toward Zhou Hailong. “Please, give us a chance to talk.”
In truth, Lin Guodong’s belief that there was still room to turn things around was nothing more than wishful thinking.
The moment Zhou Hailong ordered the more than two thousand members of the Sea Dragon Gang to assemble, he had already decided not to give the Lin family any chance of salvaging the situation.
“Hahahaha…”
Faced with Lin Guodong’s plea, Zhou Hailong laughed without restraint. “Lin Guodong, it’s not as though I never gave you a chance.”
“When you failed to bring that useless son-in-law of yours, along with what I wanted, before me within the time limit I set…”
“You lost the right to negotiate with me.”
Lin Guodong’s despair deepened at once. He shouted, “Brother Dragon, I can give you every asset belonging to the Lin family. I only ask that you show mercy and spare my family!”
Zhou Hailong let out a scornful laugh. “Do I need you to give them to me? Once you and everyone else in the Lin family are dead, those assets will belong to me all the same. Hahahaha…”
“Hahahaha…”
In an instant, the gang members behind Zhou Hailong joined in the laughter.
“Brother Dragon…”
Lin Guodong, a full-grown man of imposing stature, was already preparing to kneel before Zhou Hailong.
Xiao Nan stepped forward and stopped him. “Uncle Lin, there’s no need to waste your breath on this piece of trash. Go inside with Second Uncle and Third Uncle. Leave this place to me.”
Without waiting for Lin Guodong to reply, Xiao Nan turned to Lin Guoan and Lin Guoliang and said seriously, “Second Uncle, Third Uncle, you should be able to see that Zhou Hailong has no intention of negotiating with the Lin family today.”
“A fight is inevitable. There’s no point in you staying here. Take Uncle Lin inside first.”
Lin Guoan and Lin Guoliang exchanged a glance.
Xiao Nan was right. Fighting was not their strength.
If Zhou Hailong refused to give them a chance to negotiate, then there truly was no point in their remaining there.
The two men sighed, nodded at Xiao Nan, and escorted Lin Guodong back into the villa.
Only after the three Lin brothers had returned inside did Xiao Nan turn his cold gaze upon Zhou Hailong.
“I was planning to go to your hideout tonight and kill you. Since you’ve delivered yourself to my door, you’ve saved me the trouble.”
“Hahahaha…”
Zhou Hailong laughed out of sheer fury. “You’re that useless son-in-law of the Lin family, aren’t you? And yet you actually dare to stand here and face the thousands of members of my Sea Dragon Gang. You’ve got some courage, at least.”
As he spoke, Zhou Hailong lunged at Xiao Nan in a single explosive step. “For the sake of that courage, I’ll personally finish you off today. An ordinary person would never receive such treatment.”
Faced with Zhou Hailong’s terrifying charge, the Black Leopard Gang members surrounding Xiao Nan all changed expression.
In their hearts, Zhou Hailong was the supreme number-one expert of Luocheng.
Even though he had not truly made his move yet, the force of his charge alone was enough to leave them trembling with fear.
Xiao Nan, however, remained perfectly still. He merely gave a soft snort.
“Trash like this isn’t worthy of my taking action.”
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With that, he looked toward Li Yunbao beside him. “Go and destroy him.”
“Yes, Senior.”
Li Yunbao stepped forward without hesitation and positioned himself before Xiao Nan.
Yet inwardly, he could not stop feeling uneasy.
Even though he was now a genuine Profound-level expert, he had only just broken through to that level and had little experience fighting powerful opponents.
Zhou Hailong, on the other hand, had been famous for many years.
“He’s only at the early Profound level, while you’re already at the mid-Profound level.”
“If you can’t even handle him, you might as well go home and kill yourself by smashing your head against a block of tofu.”
Seeing Li Yunbao’s anxiety, Xiao Nan said this from behind him.
Before they officially exchanged blows, Li Yunbao could not determine Zhou Hailong’s exact level of cultivation.
Xiao Nan’s cultivation far exceeded theirs, so discerning it was effortless for him.
“Thank you, Senior.”
Upon hearing Xiao Nan’s words, Li Yunbao’s heart immediately settled.
If Zhou Hailong had been at the same level as him, or higher, he might still have felt somewhat apprehensive.
But since his opponent was at a lower level, and an unfathomably powerful senior stood behind him, what did he have to worry about?
“Hmph!”
Zhou Hailong had been preparing to deliver a thunderous strike before his two thousand followers and take Xiao Nan’s life.
Seeing Li Yunbao foolishly block his path, unaware of the gulf between heaven and earth, he could not help snorting coldly.
He fixed his gaze on Li Yunbao. “I originally intended to destroy your new master first, then deal with you afterward.”
“Since you’re so eager to die, I’ll grant your wish first.”
Zhou Hailong could indeed sense that Li Yunbao’s aura was considerably stronger than when he had seen him before. Presumably, the man had recently made a breakthrough in his cultivation.
But even so, what of it?
Today, he would make this arrogant fool understand just how terrifying a Profound-level expert could be.
He circulated his internal energy and slammed a palm toward Li Yunbao’s chest.
With countless eyes watching from behind him, he intended to kill Li Yunbao in the simplest—and most brutal—manner possible.
Facing Zhou Hailong’s palm, Li Yunbao neither dodged nor retreated.
He answered violence with violence, circulating his own internal energy and meeting the attack with an identical palm strike.
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“Bang!”
The two palms collided.
At once, an overwhelmingly terrifying force erupted.
For a fleeting moment, everyone clearly felt the earth tremble.
Zhou Hailong’s body flew backward like a kite with its string cut, before crashing heavily onto the ground.
“Mid-Profound level…”
Zhou Hailong spat out a mouthful of blood as he lay there, his eyes wide with shock.
He stared at Li Yunbao, who had taken his palm strike head-on yet remained standing exactly where he was, completely unharmed.
It was as though he had seen a ghost.
After that brief exchange, Zhou Hailong could now be absolutely certain:
Li Yunbao was unquestionably a genuine mid-Profound-level expert.
But how was that possible?
His eyes filled with disbelief.
Only a few months ago, he had personally witnessed Li Yunbao fighting someone.
At that time, Li Yunbao had not even touched the threshold of the Yellow level.
Yet in the short span of a few months, he had reached the mid-Profound level—actually surpassing Zhou Hailong by an entire tier?
A tempest of disbelief surged through Zhou Hailong’s heart.
An extraordinary encounter. He must have had some kind of extraordinary encounter.
At this moment, Zhou Hailong finally understood why Li Yunbao had suddenly dared to attack the members of his Sea Dragon Gang.
He also understood why the men he had sent the previous night to wipe out the Black Leopard Hall had not only failed to destroy it, but had instead been killed or severely injured in large numbers.
It turned out that the Li Yunbao of today was no longer the Li Yunbao of the past.
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